Three NDSU departments have been awarded a total of $434,000 over two years by the North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, known as ND EPSCoR, for New Faculty Start-Up supplemental funding. The funding will enable the hiring of four new faculty members in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics and Veterinary and Microbiological Science.
The New Faculty Start-Up program’s major goal is to staff North Dakota’s research-intensive universities with new faculty who will be nationally-competitive for grants from federal agency research programs in science, engineering and mathematics. According to Kelly A. Rusch, co-chair of ND EPSCoR and vice-president for research and creative activity, “The New Faculty Start-Up Program is an invaluable instrument for department chairs in recruiting top faculty via providing a mechanism to offer highly competitive financial packages to establish strong research programs.”
ND EPSCoR is a federally-and-state funded program designed to help university researchers compete more effectively for federal, regional and private research grants in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. For more information, visit www.ndepscor.nodak.edu Questions may be directed to ND EPSCoR at 231-8400 or Sheri Anderson, ND EPSCoR interim co-project director, at 231-7516 or sheri.anderson@ndsu.edu.
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